Affordances and spatial agency in psychopathology

Selves Beyond the Skin: Watsuji, 'Betweenness', and Self-Loss in Solitary Confinement and Dementia

“…Consider how different spaces within everyday life support distinct forms of bodily expression, orientation, and connection: from classrooms, night shelters, hospitals, and sporting arenas to online video chats, mosques, queer clubs, military barracks, and political rallies. Within these spaces, our embodied subjectivity extends into and takes shape within their distinctive contours (Ahmed, 2006;Krueger, 2023). Watsuji's 'dialectical' approach highlights that a full picture of how bodies are constituted as the kinds of bodies they are will therefore reflect not just their physical properties but also the way they (subjectively) extend themselves into different contexts of betweenness.…”